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12:30 pm

Thu May 23, 2013

Youth Report: Conversations with Artists at the LowerTown Arts & Music Festival

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Kayla Eicholtz recording VOs in the studio

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Marti McGinnis' art cars

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Bob McGill, painting with razor blades

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David Barlow's drawings

By Matt Markgraf and Kayla Eicholtz

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WKMS Youth Reporter Kayla Eicholtz gets to know some of the artists at the 2013 LowerTown Arts & Music Festival. In this extended version of her Sounds Good feature, she speaks with artists Marti McGinnis, Bob McGill, and David Barlow at their LowerTown booths on Saturday, May 18th. Click here to see more about the festival and the artists that attended.

See more about the WKMS Youth Radio Project.

Environment

7:35 am

Fri May 17, 2013

Youth Report: Not So Fast, All About LBL's Turtle Derby

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By Matt Markgraf and Aaron Sikkel

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Earlier this month, over 16 million viewers tuned in to watch the 139th annual Kentucky Derby. To celebrate the event, the Nature Station at Land Between the Lakes held their own, much slower race: the Kentucky Turtle Derby. WKMS Youth Reporter Aaron Sikkel covered the event and sat down with Naturalist Aviva Yasgur to learn about how turtles contribute to the region's ecosystem. This article features the full version of the interview.

Special thanks to Aaron's mom, Claire Fuller, for coordinating the interview and taking photos. If you are interested in getting involved in the WKMS Youth Radio Project, check out our page with more info, here.

Education

5:37 pm

Mon April 8, 2013

Teaching Poetry to Kids and Recording for Radio

By Kate Lochte

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Murray State’s Teacher Quality Institute’s Constance Alexander brings poetry to the studio on Sounds Good today. She’s produced Poetry Minutes for WKMS over the past several years. In the conversation, she reads some of the poems written by area school kids for the project, and talks about teaching poetry to kids, how to interpret something like a photo or painting using carefully constructed words.

Click here to listen to this year's Poetry Minutes.

Bonus: Here's last year's Poetry Minutes!

Poetry Minutes

10:54 am

Mon April 1, 2013

Poetry Minutes 2013: Picturing America

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"The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," Grant Wood

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Hannah Greenlee and Emma Greenlee, Homespun Fabric Scraps

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"The Boating Party," Mary Cassatt

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Brooklyn Bridge, Walker Evans

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"Portrait of a Boy," John Singer Sargent

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Cover Illustration for The Last of the Mohicans, N.C. Wyeth

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"Ladder for Booker T. Washington," Martin Puryear

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"The Veteran in a New Field," Winslow Homer

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"The Sources of Country Music," Thomas Hart Benton

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Freedom of Speech, The Saturday Evening Post, by Norman Rockwell

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"American Flamingo," John James Audubon

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"The County Election," George Caleb Bingham

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"Migrant Mother," Dorothea Lange

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"Washington Crossing the Delaware," Emanuel Leutze

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Poettery and Baskets by The Anasazi, c. 1100 to c. 1960

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Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965, James Karales

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The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole

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The Peacock Room: Harmony in Blue and Gold, James McNeill Whistler

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper

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"Sans Arc Lakota" Ledger Book, Black Hawk

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"American Landscape, 1930," Charles Sheeler

By Matt Markgraf and Constance Alexander

Hear Poetry Minutes every weekday in April at 7:19 AM, 11:40 AM, and 4:19 PM

In honor of National Poetry Month, WKMS and Murray State University's Teacher Quality Institute have teamed up again for a special project during April, bringing short poems by students in western Kentucky public schools, that air at 7:19 a.m., 11:40 a.m. and 4:19 p.m. weekdays through Tuesday, April 30.

Poems About Picturing America, influenced by William Carlos Williams

Education

2:57 pm

Mon March 11, 2013

Lone Oak High School Senior Competes in Poetry Out Loud Championship

By Kate Lochte

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Jazmyne Lilly, Senior from Lone Oak High School, competes in the state Poetry Out Loud Championship in Frankfort Tuesday, March 12. She is one of three seniors from our region among seventeen finalists for the opportunity to represent the Commonwealth in national competition. She previews her recitation of a Carl Sandburg poem for us.

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